BBC Newsnight seems to provide the most militant of the BBC strikers. Michael Crick, the programme's political editor, said “I haven’t listened to the Today programme. I regard listening to or watching the BBC as strike breaking.” Wow. I wonder what he thinks of left-leaning journalists like Ste...

BBC Newsnight seems to provide the most militant of the BBC strikers. Michael Crick, the programme's political editor, said “I haven’t listened to the Today programme. I regard listening to or watching the BBC as strike breaking.” Wow. I wonder what he thinks of left-leaning journalists like Ste...

I hope The Times' paywall works and not just because it offers free-to-air blogs like ConHome new opportunities. It was James Forsyth who pointed me to the customers of Starbucks, clutching their £2-a-go coffee frappuccino and a free copy of the Metro. If people are willing to pay for such luxur...

I hope The Times' paywall works and not just because it offers free-to-air blogs like ConHome new opportunities. It was James Forsyth who pointed me to the customers of Starbucks, clutching their £2-a-go coffee frappuccino and a free copy of the Metro. If people are willing to pay for such luxur...

The Sun carries a full page story today on how "a jobless 22-year-old portrayed by the BBC as a helpless victim of benefits cuts has admitted he REFUSES to work - because he is better off on the dole." The newspaper then carries a long leader blasting the BBC for its coverage of the cuts: "The...

Further to my post on BBC institutional bias yesterday, I'd be glad of your help in drawing up a list of 'right wing questions' for interviewers. BBC, Channel 4 and other journalists seem programmed to ask 'red corner' questions. Why aren't you passing a law to outlaw X? Hasn't this problem occu...

Washington's Mall after Obama's inauguration... ...and after Saturday's 'Restoring Honor' rally where tens of thousands (perhaps as many as 300,000) conservatives gathered: Hat tip to Andrew Bolt (essential reading for every clean living conservative).

Washington's Mall after Obama's inauguration... ...and after Saturday's 'Restoring Honor' rally where tens of thousands (perhaps as many as 300,000) conservatives gathered: Hat tip to Andrew Bolt (essential reading for every clean living conservative).

I've long thought that the docufilms produced by the likes of Michael Moore, Al Gore and Morgan Spurlock are powerful ways of influencing public opinion and I'm delighted to see that American conservatives are fighting back with a movie of their own: The movie has its own website here. And mo...

I've long thought that the docufilms produced by the likes of Michael Moore, Al Gore and Morgan Spurlock are powerful ways of influencing public opinion and I'm delighted to see that American conservatives are fighting back with a movie of their own: The movie has its own website here. And mo...

My reference to David Brooks had nothing to do with climate change but never mind :-)
On your wider point scientists are the authority on whether global warming is happening but economists and politicians are best placed to decide the costs of action/ inaction and the opportunity costs of fighting climate change for example rather than throwing all global will behind abolishing trade barriers.

Two of the world's best conservative columnists write at the very liberal New York Times. I often draw attention to David Brooks' work. Also worth bookmarking is Ross Douthat for his column and for his Evaluations blog. He has recently written two very thoughtful pieces on the (American) Right a...

Two of the world's best conservative columnists write at the very liberal New York Times. I often draw attention to David Brooks' work. Also worth bookmarking is Ross Douthat for his column and for his Evaluations blog. He has recently written two very thoughtful pieces on the (American) Right a...

In ConservativeHome's search for the most hundred influential people on the Right today, readers have already supplied nominations for influential journalists and yesterday for backbenchers. Today we'd like your nominations for influential think tank chiefs and other thought leaders including...

In the fourth part* of our search for influential right-wingers I'm asking you to identify Tory frontbenchers (ie ministers) who are outside of the Cabinet but still have significant influence. You might, for example, like to nominate Greg Clark MP - in Eric Pickles' team - for his decentrali...

In the fourth part* of our search for influential right-wingers I'm asking you to identify Tory frontbenchers (ie ministers) who are outside of the Cabinet but still have significant influence. You might, for example, like to nominate Greg Clark MP - in Eric Pickles' team - for his decentrali...

In ConservativeHome's search for the most hundred influential people on the Right today, readers have already supplied nominations for influential journalists and yesterday for backbenchers. Today we'd like your nominations for influential think tank chiefs and other thought leaders including...

We began ConHome's search for the one hundred most influential people on The Right yesterday when I sought your nominations for journalists. Today I'm looking for nominations for parliamentarians who, not on the Westminster frontbench, have a big influence. And influence is the key criterion ...

The Telegraph, with Iain Dale, has for a number of years published a list of leaders of The Right - each year to coincide with the annual Tory Party Conference. It's always a fascinating list that attracts enormous attention. One of the few weaknesses of the list, however, is that it excludes...

Tomorrow, as part of ConservativeHome's summer programme we start our search for leaders of The Right. But before that search begins I readily acknowledge that the term 'Right-wing' leaves a lot to be desired and means different things in different countries. Satisfactory and unsatisfactory def...

The Telegraph, with Iain Dale, has for a number of years published a list of leaders of The Right - each year to coincide with the annual Tory Party Conference. It's always a fascinating list that attracts enormous attention. One of the few weaknesses of the list, however, is that it excludes...